Penny Hardy's New Book Treats the Curbside Dining Room as Architecture

Penny Hardy has published a book about the streetery, the dining room that moved off the sidewalk and into the street, and she covers its earliest, roughest years. Her subject is building by people who were never trained as architects, put up during a difficult period. The book gives those makeshift rooms the attention usually given to houses with an architect's name on them. Readers who follow how American places are built will see a book that takes design seriously wherever it turns up, including at the curb.

With reporting from Curbed.